"Think of the disgrace of a vice president [Spiro Agnew] leaving office, a president [Richard M. Nixon] leaving office. Think of that evening, April 4, 1968, when we had to put buses around the White House, bumper-to-bumper to keep the people of Washington, D.C., from burning down the White House, in our nation's capital. We were really shaken as a people, more so than any other time in my life," he said